EU's tendency to lay stress on the regions may speed up this nation-blurring.

ECONOMIST: Spain and Portugal

But problems in Iraq also persuaded Mr Bush to lay more stress on multilateral institutions during the summer of 2004.

ECONOMIST: Foreign policy

Bloggers and others, mostly outside academia, who criticise CRU's work and other climate science tend to lay much stress on statistical shortcomings.

ECONOMIST: Climate science and its discontents

Yet, despite the great success of its education system, Singapore has been reforming it to lay less stress on rote-learning and repetitive tests and more on self-expression.

ECONOMIST: The contest with China moves into the classroom and nursery

He urged them to lay much more stress on what he regards as significant achievements by Lib Dems within the UK coalition - rather than the fact of the coalition itself, given its other half.

BBC: Nick Clegg